The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh announced Tuesday it is offering eligible faculty and staff a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payment equal to 50% of an employee's annual base salary.

UW-Oshkosh becomes the third campus within the UW System to offer buyouts in an effort to reduce its workforce in the face of state budget cuts. UW-Eau Claire was the first, followed last week by UW-Superior.

UW-Oshkosh expects about 100 employees would be eligible. It has set a goal of reducing its workforce by 80 within the next three years.(113)

New schedule for U.S. Amateur

Town of Erin -- The United States Golf Association has adjusted the match play schedule for the U.S. Amateur at Erin Hills.

Originally, two matches were scheduled for Thursday -- the round of 32 and the round of 16 -- but now the latter has been pushed to Friday.

The reason? The USGA didn't want some round of 16 matches to end Thursday night and others to be postponed by darkness. That would mean players whose matches concluded wouldn't have to come back to the course early Friday morning, while players whose matches didn't finish would have to return for (presumably) a 7:15 resumption in play.

With ideal weather forecast for the rest of the championship, there was no need to push it Thursday. Also, the USGA wants to create equitable conditions -- or as equitable as possible -- for the final 32 players.

So the new schedule is as follows:

On Friday, the first match in the round of 16 is scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m., with the quarterfinals starting at 1:15 p.m.

On Saturday, the semifinals start at 8 a.m.

On Sunday, the first round of the 36-hole final starts at 9 a.m. and the second round at 2 p.m.